View of the Members' Room for Modern Art in The Baltimore Museum of Art during "Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by André Masson" in 1941. Masson's works on the walls include at the far right, "Birds Fighting" and second from the left, "The Lovers." With financial assistance from Saidie May, Masson and his family fled Europe and arrived in America in the spring of 1941. On October 31st of that year, Masson gave an illustrated lecture, "Cubism and Surrealism" at the opening of a retrospective of his works at the BMA. That exhibition was the first in the BMA's new Members' Room for Modern Art, also funded by May.